DEFINITION:
Cyberpunk - A is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life".
The name was created by Bruce Bethke who has written a short novel on the subject that
dicusses things such as information technology, cybernetics and other advance sciene topics
as well as featuring the breakdown and extreme changes of social order in the coming uears of life.
The Stars My Destination as a Cyberpunk Novel:
In our opinion Alfred Bester's novel can be considered a Cyberpunk novel due to the existence of advanced
technology in Gulliver Foyle's world i.e. memo beads, jaunting, launch pads; as well as Gulliver's lack of intelligence
and there for representation of the "low life" or primative qualities of a Cyberpunk novel. Not only do the novel's
characters represent these ideas environment of the novel itself supports it. The wars between the inner and outer
planets as well as the levels that people have to go to protect themselves from strangers jaunting into their homes
show the strong deterition of the society that we know and it's morals.
DEFINITION:
Cyberpunk - A is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life".
The name was created by Bruce Bethke who has written a short novel on the subject that
dicusses things such as information technology, cybernetics and other advance sciene topics
as well as featuring the breakdown and extreme changes of social order in the coming uears of life.
The Stars My Destination as a Cyberpunk Novel:
In our opinion Alfred Bester's novel can be considered a Cyberpunk novel due to the existence of advanced
technology in Gulliver Foyle's world i.e. memo beads, jaunting, launch pads; as well as Gulliver's lack of intelligence
and there for representation of the "low life" or primative qualities of a Cyberpunk novel. Not only do the novel's
characters represent these ideas environment of the novel itself supports it. The wars between the inner and outer
planets as well as the levels that people have to go to protect themselves from strangers jaunting into their homes
show the strong deterition of the society that we know and it's morals.